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Giovanni ColomboEIT Governing Board

European Institute of Innovation and Technology

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Sapienza Università di Roma, Facoltà di Economia

L’azione comune europea a sostegno dell’innovazione e della ricerca tecnologica

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EIT is recognized as a key driver of sustainable economic growth andcompetitiveness across Europe:

through stimulation of world-leading innovation

EIT Vision and Ambition

innovation education

researchImprove European competitiveness by addressing a sustainable economic growth through a stronger innovation capability

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To be the catalyst for a step change in the European Community’s

innovation capacity and impact through the delivery of major new actions.

The first of these is the creation of the Knowledge and Innovation Communities, KICs.

KICs will: build innovative ‘webs of excellence’ create new business educate and develop entrepreneurial people have societal impact

Mission of EIT

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EIT, Governing Board and KICs

ExecutiveCommittee

chairman

18 nominated members(mandate 6 years, 1/3 substituted every 2 years)

4 representative members (mandate 3 years, 1 renewal)

External bodies CommissionParliament

Council

Knowledge and Innovation Communities

GoverningBoard

(mandate 4 years, 1 renewal)

designationconventiongoals and mandateevaluation planning, reporting

definition of Strategic Innovation Agenda

EIT promotion

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1. EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) : ideas / plans

2. KICs with unique impact : KIC topics, format, selection

3. Sustainable mobilization of additional funding: including EIT Foundation tools

Strategic Objectives focus of the EIT Governing Board

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A KIC is a high-profile, collaborative consortium

a “legally and financially structured and managed entity” of geographically distributed but thematically convergent stakeholders open to international participation climate change and mitigation, sustainable energy and ICT the

first KICs to be launched will become a world leader in its field

encompassing the whole innovation chain from education to economic impact

will deliver a measurable impacts on society economic, scientific, educational and entrepreneurial

will have a minimum life of 7 years

Knowledge and Innovation Communities

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Network evolution:• access-agnostic schemes• self-organisation and

context-awareness • business, openness models• societal behaviour and

statistics

Example - disruptive transformations and the double role of ICT

intelligent transport

renewable energy

production and transport

ICT and process-related enablers

ICT- endogenous applications (e.g. context-aware and content-based services)

processes facing disruptivetransformations (examples)

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Geographically distributed people across the European Community and linking to centres of excellence in

other parts of the worldWorking in networks focussed on typically 4 – 6 major nodes

which are “co-location centres” where staff from different stakeholders come to work together, face-to-face

and which link other partners, such as local clusters of SMEs Each co-location center should encompass a significant part of the innovation chain Co-location of people is critical

it is the key to achieve knowledge transfer and ‘translation’ between stakeholders and between science, research and business

effective translation is fundamental to delivery of KIC goals Mobility of people is therefore a pre-condition

Ingredients for a KIC with impact

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An internationally distributed collaborative consortium: composed of elite centers from business, entrepreneurship, technology, research and education

each with a track record in excellence, international cooperation, knowledge dissemination and translation to business

allows collaborative people to work together in “co-location centers”

legally and financially structured entity with a motivating intellectual property rights policy

has top quality leadership, governance, structure and accountability

attracts public and private funding, tripling the EIT funding over time

can include excellent partners from non-EU countries

KIC Selection Criteria 1

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Compelling, innovative proposals with future potential

Addressing important topics for Europe With (new) business and societal impact Making innovation an integral part of Higher Education A strong research and technology base, all of which is relevant and critical to the

success of the KIC (including non-technological research) Going beyond research and technology: translation to new and existing

businesses Key performance indicators (KPIs), targeted investment

returns and drivers identified upfront Builds up continuous, self-sustaining activities

KIC Selection Criteria 2

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Call for proposals for KICs by April 2009, submission August 2009

Based on KIC format and selection criteria, finalized by end March 2009

Selection of the first 2-3 KICs by January 2010

Strong teams with the best chance of success

Proposals recognized as innovative, ambitious and coherent

Extensive publicity for the selected KICs in order to support them by all appropriate means

Evaluation and monitoring of KICs starting by August 2010

Recognized as fair, simple and effective

Consistent and clearly derived from the original selection criteria

Rewarding good performance and achievement

Recognizing and communicating the EIT brand

Call, Selection and Monitoring

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Is that possible to reconcile local capabilities with the global, techno-economic machine ?

Research, Innovation and Education, global and local dimensions

Two major issues are shaping (will shape)

perspectives

• Sustainability

• Knowledge - based economy

strictlyinterconnected

social economic

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trans-generation visionethical dimension

Vision, long-short term research, product-process innovation

sustainability

knowledgeeconomy

present transformations conditioning future perspectives

complex systems behaviour

economic discontinuities built-up on top of present technology

total service/product economy, innovative

productionlong term technological & scientific research

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Knowledge cycleand product/service innovation

servicebroker

serviceenablers

technologicalresearch

basicresearch

engineering and product

system andnetwork evolution

codedknowledge

cycle

user behaviourcontextservice

marketuser

marketproduct

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Innovation of complex processes

sustainability

knowledgeeconomy

multi disciplinaryapproach

basicdisciplines

research cycle exploiting basic disciplines through an aggregation approach

New co-operative value chains: • sustainability-constrained processes• social impact• new remuneration models• regulation criteria reviewed

building over technological advances

• technologies• models

• social behaviour• economical• random graphs• performance

•innovative business scheme•system control algorithms•critical performance factors

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Reconciling global and local knowledge

sustainability

knowledgeeconomy

Non- technological issues:• new value chains need to be defined and their sustainability proved• economic models able to remunerate the (newly aggregated)

stakeholders are to be consolidated• social and environmental benefits need to be embedded in the model

(e.g. CO2 trade)

New alliances:• active role of Public Administration • use of Pre-commercial procurement • role of Functional Specifications and PA as first adopter

Benefits, key system control factors• metrics to measure the benefits induced by the (innovated)

process in the long run • system performance models and sensitivity analysis to

disseminate best practices